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A manifold is locally $\mathbb R^n$. An orbifold is locally $\mathbb R^n/\{\text{finite group}\}$. Is there a similar way to think about the local structure of a Lie groupoid $G_1 \rightrightarrows G_0$?
For example, the Lie algebroid determines a distribution on $G_0$, and I think that it is locally integrable? What extra structure "local" structure of the groupoid is there (e.g. this distribution loses the data about the automorphisms of a point).
Finally, is the right notion of "local structure" well-behaved under equivalences of groupoids? If it is, then I really should change the title of the question to "What is the local structure of a smooth stack?".


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Christopher Cruz, right, appears in criminal court with his lawyer H. Benjamin Perez in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody weekend confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in "grave danger" and feared for the life of his family when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, his wife said Thursday.
Rosalyn Ng said in a statement that she and her husband, Alexian Lien, had been planning to celebrate their wedding anniversary with their 2-year-old daughter on Sunday afternoon, but instead they were swarmed by a motorcycle rally on Manhattan's West Side Highway.
Dozens of bikers rode alongside the couple's black Range Rover until a biker slowed down and the vehicles bumped, police said. Video captured at the scene shows the SUV surrounded by dozens of helmeted riders. One approaches the vehicle and peers into the driver's side window. Police said others tried to damage the SUV before Lien takes off, plowing over a rider. The bikers give chase and Lien is eventually stopped, pulled from the SUV and beaten, police said. He required stitches.
"We were faced with a life-threatening situation, and my husband was forced under the circumstances to take the actions that he did in order to protect the lives of our entire family," Ng said.
She said her family's sympathies went out to the injured rider, 32-year-old Edwin Mieses Jr., who broke both legs and suffered spinal injuries that may leave him paralyzed — but there was no other option than to flee.
"Our fear for our lives was confirmed when the incident ended with the ruthless and brutal attack on my husband, me, and, most importantly, our 2-year-old child," Ng said. "We know in our hearts that we could not have done anything differently, and we believe that anyone faced with this sort of grave danger would have taken the same course of action in order to protect their family."
Mieses' friends and family held a rally for him Wednesday evening outside of St. Luke's-Roosevelt hospital and have said that the Lawrence, Mass.-resident, known as Jay Meezee, is the true victim. Jaime Reyes said his friend was doing well, all things considered.
"Hopefully, I get to see him walk again and ride again and share special moments with him again," he said. "But for right now, we're all just praying for him and thinking positive that he's going to pull through and make it through this."
Mieses was recently arrested in Andover, Mass., for driving with a revoked license. According to police and records with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, Mieses hasn't had a valid license or permit to drive in the state since 1999. He also never applied for a motorcycle license.
The records show that in June he was named a habitual offender and his right to drive in the state was revoked until 2017. It isn't clear if he had been licensed in any other state. His attorney had no comment.
Lien has no prior arrests.
Mieses and the others seen on the video were participating in a periodic rally in which more than 1,000 bikers head for Times Square, police have said. There were dozens of calls about reckless driving, 15 other arrests and 55 motorcycles confiscated.
The Manhattan district attorney's office has charged one rider, 28-year-old Christopher Cruz, of Passaic, N.J., with unlawful imprisonment and reckless driving while authorities continue to search for other cyclists.
Investigators and prosecutors, who held off charging another person, are tracking down and talking to dozens of helmet-clad motorcyclists seen in the video, which was posted online. The video shows only the chase and Lien's window getting smashed; the assault is not captured. Police on Thursday evening released photos of two witnesses they want to speak to in the case.
Associated Press video journalist Ted Shaffrey and writer Mark Pratt in Boston contributed to this report.


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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Polymer Clay & Trinket Embellishment Tutorial (Bo Bunny DT)
41 comments:
Wonderful, what a great idea with the clay! I love your page and your work
- March 22, 2012 at 6:15 AM
- Astrid Maclean said...
Great LO and wonderful tutorial! I used to do these in the past and you have just inspired me to have a go again, thank you!
- March 22, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- craftysals creative corner said...
Those clay embellishments are stunning and so clever, love your work and tutorials
- March 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Elle said...
Thanks for the great tutorial - the finished product really rocks.
And I love your layout! - March 22, 2012 at 8:08 AM
- ms.schwiet said...
Awesome.... I've been a busy clay baker lately. Thanks for the inspiration
- March 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM
- Colleen said...
Beautiful and you make it look so easy.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:11 AM
- Lise said...
Beautiful LO. I love your page and your work :-))
- March 22, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- Edilza Teixeira Scrap e Artes said...
Oi Gabrielle !!!
Obrigada por compartilhar conosco suas criações.
Beijos - March 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM
- cvanholstein said...
Oh Yess, you totally inspired me!
Looking for my Fimo right now! :)
Great layout with all the sowing.
Kind regards, Corina - March 22, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- Vicky Alberto said...
beautiful creativity!
- March 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Catherine SIWCZAK said...
gorgeous embellishments !!!
- March 22, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Keren Tamir said...
wow gabi these are amazing!! too bad you don't sell them anymore!! I wouldn't have the patience to make them but I love them!!
- March 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Gabrielle: These are wonderfully creative and look like fun to make! I love them all, but especially the one with the calla lilies on it. Thank you for sharing your creative process with us. ~Laura ("Mrs. Bean")
- March 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM
- Romy said...
Wow, Gabi, those clay embellishments look stunning! It must have been very time-consuming embellishments to make, but they look fabulous! Your layout is such a masterpiece too, just love how you used this collection!
- March 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM
- Patty O'Malley said...
Beautiful layout and a wonderful tutorial. I'm just sitting here in awe!
- March 22, 2012 at 6:37 PM
- Cindy Gay said...
The layout is so fun with great layers of papers and those polymer clay embellishments are magnificent!
- March 22, 2012 at 8:57 PM
- Kelly-ann Oosterbeek said...
GREAT photo and a vert 'arty' LO ... thanks for the step-by-step!
- March 22, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- DebraK said...
so 'rich' looking--so much nicer than you could buy in a store. I just love them all!!! thanks for sharing your awesome talent!
- March 22, 2012 at 10:07 PM
- DebraK said...
so 'rich' looking--so much nicer than you could buy in a store. I just love them all!!! thanks for sharing your awesome talent!
- March 22, 2012 at 10:07 PM
- Lisa said...
Wow so amazing!! Beautiful work as always!!!
- March 23, 2012 at 12:16 AM
- Amy Voorthuis said...
Oh Wow this is amazing......always admire your work!!!
- March 23, 2012 at 2:54 AM
- Tracey Gregory said...
I have never tried this but now i know what i am using my next coupon for:)
- March 23, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Gabi, once again your creativity leaves me spellbound and speechless! I am on dial-up and it takes FOREVER to load up your pages and then frequently some of your pictures have the little red X in the upper left corner that I have to right-click and then click on "Show picture". My patience always pays off where your creative work is concerned! I LOVE IT!
- March 23, 2012 at 11:32 PM
- Eila Sandberg said...
Never seen these done before, am totally gobsmacked! ha ha how clever to use hairspray! thanks ever so much for sharing both the tut and your wonderfully happy and vibrant page! xoxox
- March 24, 2012 at 2:04 PM
- Tracie said...
Wow! LOVE these! What a great idea. I love your work and I visit your blog all the time to see what you are going to come up with next and you keep amazing me with your creativity. Thank you so much for these awesome tutorials!
- March 25, 2012 at 12:45 PM
So glad I followed the link from BoBunny to your blog. This is an amazing tutorial and food for thought on how I can incorporate this technique!
- March 26, 2012 at 7:33 PM
- Francine said...
Gabrielle - thank you so much for sharing this great tutorial. I've got to go buy myself some clay now!
- March 27, 2012 at 2:23 AM
- Cindy said...
What an awesome tutorial!! I love these!! Absolutely love this page too, amazing colors and adorable photo!! Fantastic!
- March 29, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Liz said...
G - you just amaze me! What a great idea and your detailing is unsurpassed :) TFS
- April 3, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- Asmah Zainal Abidin said...
Fantabulous! Your tutorial is awesome; tfs ~ I'll keep it in mind!
- April 7, 2012 at 10:19 PM
- Capescrapper said...
Absolutely gorgeous work! It inspires me to use my polymer clay more. Thanks for the detail tutorial!
- May 4, 2012 at 6:49 PM
- Carmen said...
Wow! Really beautiful work!!
- May 29, 2012 at 10:26 AM
I'm an editor's assistant and I help run a blog called "Weekly Scrapper".
My company has shown an interest in a project of yours, we'd like to repost it on our blog and facebook page.
Our facebook page has a 100k+ fans and counting.
Here is a link to the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/SCRAPBOOKEXPO
It would be great if you could email me back, we're always looking for Great content!
Also, please reference this blog post / project and (scrapbooking, general, monkey)
Nick Cianflocco
Weekly Scrapper Editors Assistant
- March 13, 2013 at 2:28 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Gabrielle,
I loved reading this piece! Well written!
Merlen Hogg
vanntetting - March 14, 2013 at 5:25 AM
- Unknown said...
Lovely Polymer Clay creations. So talented :)
- July 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM
- craftychic said...
Your work is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your talents with us :)
- January 10, 2015 at 10:24 PM
- Cottagemuse said...
Greetings from a fellow Ontarian! Love your designs. I have tiny gears from inside watches, that I'd like to us in my polymer clay projects. Can I simply stick them onto the clay and bake? Or do I have to remove them after baking, and glue them on? -Christina
- December 12, 2015 at 12:01 AM
- Jessica said...
I'm going to give this a try! Hopefully, when I bake the clay, it won't turn out as bad as the food I bake :-)
- December 23, 2015 at 12:20 PM
- Unknown said...
Love, love, love these!! ...You have definitely inspired a Newbie to Polymer & Metal Clay
- September 18, 2016 at 3:55 PM
- Diane said...
I pinned this tutorial about 18 months ago, and hardly a day goes by without an email from Pinterest that it has been repinned. You have inspired a lot of people. Thanks for the great tutorial!
- November 24, 2016 at 12:04 PM
- JB said...
Great tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing. :-)
- December 16, 2017 at 10:33 AM


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By Kahrin Deines, Associated Press
HELENA – Montana is trying to trigger a battle over gun control — and perhaps make a larger point about what many folks in this ruggedly independent state regard as a meddlesome federal government.
In a bill passed by the Legislature earlier this month, the state is asserting that guns manufactured in Montana and sold in Montana to people who intend to keep their weapons in Montana are exempt from federal gun registration, background check and dealer-licensing rules because no state lines are crossed.
That notion is all but certain to be tested in court.
The immediate effect of the law could be limited, since Montana is home to just a few specialty gun makers, known for high-end hunting rifles and replicas of Old West weapons, and because their out-of-state sales would automatically trigger federal control.
Still, much bigger prey lies in Montana's sights: a legal showdown over how far the federal government's regulatory authority extends.
"It's a gun bill, but it's another way of demonstrating the sovereignty of the state of Montana," said Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who signed the bill.
Carrie DiPirro, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, had no comment on the legislation. But the federal government has generally argued that it has authority under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution to regulate guns because they can so easily be transported across state lines.


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cobi Overview
cobi seating was designed to foster collaboration and promote movement.
Part of our new category of collaborative seating, the cobi chair was designed specifically to foster collaboration and was based on three key insights:
- Chairs should promote movement and be comfortable for long periods of time
- Adjustments should be automatic and intuitive
- Chairs should support multiple postures
Collaborative Seating Design Video
Hear the design thinking behind the development of i2i and cobi, two new collaborative chairs from Steelcase that created a new category of seating.
Watch video.
Benefits & features
The cobi chair encourages movement and supports a variety of postures.
With only one adjustment (seat height), and a mechanism that's weight activated and senses and supports your own center of gravity, anyone can get comfortable quickly.
- The weight-activated mechanism senses your center of gravity and adjusts to the position that will put the least amount of stress on your body, while still keeping you properly oriented and supported.
- Seat height accommodates different heights and leg lengths.
In addition to the features above, the cobi chair has a range of options:
- Stool version available
- Armless chair and stool available
- Finish color options: black, near black, platinum & arctic white
- Connect 3D material is standard on the chair back with matching Cogent: Connect seat, or with a seat upholstery of your choice
- Optional sewn seat cushion to accommodate various fabric, leather & vinyl options
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- SCS Indoor Advantage™ Gold certified for indoor air quality. The program tests and certifies products for compliance with USGBC LEED EQ4.5 (furniture and seating).
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text: Rupert's Adventures - Escape Chestnut Room Walkthrough: ------------ 1. Click to take the letter from the doorjamb. Click twice on it in the inventory to maximize it, click it again to open it. Read it, then click the window closed to close it. Click the minimized letter onto the nail to replace it. Go left. 2. Click the middle of the righthand side of the front curtain to open the curtain. Click to take the toilet paper and the toilet brush. Go left. 3. Click to take the shotgun from around the deer's neck. Go left. 4. Click the shotgun once to take it but keep it minimized. Click the minimized gun on the tack holding up the painting on the wall. The gun will aim and shoot; the painting will fall to reveal a safe. Click on the hand to replace the shotgun in your inventory. Click on the safe to maximize it. The idea of this puzzle is to create a maze path that goes from beginning to end without crossing over itself. This puzzle changes with each attempt at the game. It is necessary to find the correct beginning box and click the correct boxes from there to make one continuous line that ends at an adjacent box or at a grey square. To reset the puzzle after an incomplete try: go right, then click each of the deer's antlers repeatedly until both antlers are horizontal, then click each one once more so that it springs to vertical. The puzzle then has reset. Go left and try the puzzle again. Reset the puzzle for each failed attempt this way until you solve it. You will see a white circle of stars appear and disappear when the puzzle is done correctly. Go down. Click on the opened safe and take out the chainsaw, the crowbar, the wrench and the hammer. Now look at the potted plant and click to take the grey metal piece from the right side of the pot.(1) Open the top file drawer and note but do not take the book. Open the bottom file drawer and click to take the grey metal piece from the right side of it.(2) Click the chainsaw to maximize it, then click each grey metal chainsaw tooth once in order to drag it and place it on the chainsaw. With each tooth minimized, click the horizontal grey metal bar to put the tooth on it. Place every chainsaw tooth you find onto the chainsaw after you retrieve it. You will be finding 29 teeth. Close the chainsaw window to replace it into your inventory each time. Click on the fallen hippo painting to maximize it. Click the toilet brush, and keeping it minimized, click the x on the hippo's belly to open its mouth. Click the brush on any of the hippo's teeth to brush its teeth. Click the hand to replace the brush in your inventory. Click to take the chainsaw tooth from the hoof the hippo raises.(3) Click on the end of the hunter's gun to get another chainsaw tooth.(4) Go down. Click on the left side of the lower left brick of the fireplace, Click on the chainsaw tooth to take it.(5) Place all three teeth on the chainsaw. Go left. 5. Click to take the chainsaw tooth on the upper left side of the doorjamb. (6) Click on the stork and frog painting to zoom in. Click on the toilet paper once to take it, then click the stork's raised leg to lower it. Click with the toilet paper again onto the stork's legs to tie them up in a bow. The stork drops the rod. Click the crowbar once to take it minimized. Click the minimized crowbar on the frog to make it jump. It nudges the rod closer to shore. Wait for the frog to jump back up on the lillypad, then nudge it with the crowbar again. Do this twice more until the end of the rod is onshore. Click the hand to replace the crowbar in your inventory, then click the end of the rod to take it. Go down. Click once to take the hammer, minimized. Click on top of the bear's head, and when the head is lifted, quickly click the minimized hammer on the bear's teeth. Click the hand to return the hammer to your inventory. Click to take all four teeth, looking carefully for the one under the hand in the inventory bar.(7-10) Place all five teeth from your inventory onto the chainsaw. Go left. 6. Click on the toilet brush and then click the hook next to the toilet to replace the brush. Click on each of the five chainsaw teeth to the right of the toilet curtain to take them (11-15) Place each tooth on the chainsaw. Click on the lefthand curtain to open it. Click and take the chainsaw tooth on the floor to the left of the toilet (16) and on the right edge of the vanity top (17). Click on the floor to the bottom right of the vanity to get the righthand side view of the vanity. Click to take the chainsaw tooth there.(18) Go down. Click on the toilet tank lid to slide it aside. Click and take the chainsaw tooth there.(19) Click the toilet lid. A tooth will fall in, which will be retrieved later. Place each of the four teeth you have onto the chainsaw. Click on the painting to zoom in. Click the wrench and then click on the eyes in the tree hole to throw the wrench. When the apple rolls away from the crying rabbit, click the apple to take it. Click under the rabbit's tongue and to the right of the lower teeth to take another chainsaw tooth. Use your browser's zoom feature if needed.(20). Go down. Go left. 7. Click and take the leftmost tree stump. Click on the mousehole to zoom in on it. Click the apple, and keeping it minimized click at the front and to the right of the mousehole to place the apple there. Wait for the mouse to take the apple, then wait for a chainsaw tooth to appear. Click to take it (21) and also click the in the mousehole to the back and right to take another tooth the mouse left there. Use your browser zoom in feature if needed.(22) Go down. Click to take the tree stump and click in front of, and to the left of, the table to replace the stump. Click on the stuffed sable on the table. Click on it twice to maximize it from your inventory. Click at the sable's mouth to take the two grey teeth there.(23 & 24) Click on the sable and click the table to replace it onto the table. Place each of the five teeth onto the chainsaw. Look at the table itself. Take the tooth from the table's edge -- the fork points towards it.(25) Look at the middle of the wooden crossbar under the table for a tooth stuck in there.(26) Place these two teeth on the chainsaw. Take the note from the table. Also take the righthand (taller) tree stump. Go left. 8. Click to zoom in on the hippo picture. Click the tuft of grass under the hunter's front foot. Click it again to get the carrot into your inventory. Go down. Go left. 9. Click to get the letter from the doorjamb. Go right. 10. Click once to take the tree stump, and keeping it minimized, click the tip of the elephant's left tusk to break up the wood on it. Click the larger paper -- the letter and keeping it minimized, click on the wood in the fireplace to place the letter on it. Then click the shotgun once to keep it minimized and click onto the woodpile in the fireplace to set it alight. Click on the hand to replace the shotgun into the inventory. Wait and watch the elephant's trunk. When it lifts its trunk, click on the pink part on the end of it to take a chainsaw tooth (27) and the key. Go right. 11. Click on the Forest Reserve painting to zoom in on it. Click the carrot once and, minimized, click on the rabbit's outstretched paw. When the rabbit switches paws, click on the blue and red magnet to take it. Click twice on the rod in your inventory to maximize it, then click once on the magnet and once again on the hook at the end of the rod to combine the magnet and rod. Close the rod window. Go down. Go right. 12. Open the toilet lid. Click the rod once, and keeping it minimized, click in the middle of the toilet basin. Click the hand to replace the rod in your inventory. Click the chainsaw tooth that was dropped to the right side of the toilet.(28) Place both of the teeth in your inventory onto the chainsaw. 13. Click twice on the note in your inventory. Take note of the animal names that do not have a line through them. This list changes with each attempt at the game. Close the window to put the note back. Click on the top drawer of the file cabinet, then click on the book to take it. Open it. Match the tracks of the animals on your list to the figures in the book, noting the number of the figure for each set of tracks of your listed animals. Write down the six figures, in the order of your list, as a six digit number. Click on the window to close the book, then click the book on the hand to put it back in your inventory. Click on the potted plant; it will fall to the floor. Click once on your crowbar and then using it minimized, click on the bottom left side of the file cabinet. It will tip over, revealing a set of tumblers. Click and put the crowbar in the upper wall safe. Click on the lower safe to zoom in, and then spin the tumblers to dial in your number. Go down. Click once on the key, and minimized, click the key on the keyhole on the lower safe. The safe door will swing open if you entered the correct combination on the tumblers. Click the key on the hand to return it to the inventory, then click to take the handcuffs and click to take the chainsaw tooth behind it.(29) This is the last piece. Click on the handcuffs and click into the lower safe to return them. Place the last tooth onto the chainsaw. Go left. 14. Click once on the chainsaw, keeping it minimized. Click on the farthest left slat of the door with the chainsaw, underneath the upper metal arrow. The chainsaw will carve a letter into the wood. Continue carving letters into the wood to spell out "Here I come!" Make sure you include carving the exclamation point into the lower right part of the door. Click the hand to return the chainsaw to your inventory. Then click on the door one more time and YOU'RE OUT!


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I might have ovarian cysts: what will the gynecologist do to find out?
Heather Corinna replies:I am going to the gyno for the first time about cysts in my ovaries and I want to know if they will have to look inside me. Or do they just feel my abdomen?
If it's suspected that you have ovarian cysts, your gynecologist will most likely want to give you a full pelvic exam, and it'd be wisest for them to do that. In the best interest of your reproductive health, you'll always want your healthcare provider to be as thorough as they can: you're at greater risk of being or becoming unwell when a doctor is not, not when they are.
Certainly, feeling your abdonimal area externally is part of that, but they'd usually also want to do a bimanual exam to really be able to feel your reproductive organs: that means feeling around your pelvis externally while also feeling internally with gloved, lubricated fingers. If they strongly suspect cysts, they may also want to do a pregnancy test (to be sure that's not why you're having the symptoms you are), and later schedule a pelvic ultrasound exam. They also may want to do some blood tests. if you've been sexually active in any way, they may also want to run an STI screening to be sure your symptoms aren't related to an infection.
That's nothing to get freaked out about. Of course, the first time you have an exam, not knowing what to expect, how it's going to go, or how to deal with someone looking at parts you may not be used to others looking at is likely going to make anyone nervous.
Here's what to expect with a pelvic exam -- Your First Gynecologist Visit. Understand that by all means, with your first exam, you should let your nurse and doctor know that it is your first. You can also ask them to be sure and explain what they are going to do as they are going to do it, though it'd be typical for them to do that, even for a more experienced patient. As they're doing the exam, please know that you can always ask your doctor to stop whatever they're doing at any given time if you become physically or emotionally uncomfortable.
If you're a minor and you feel better with a parent in with you, you can usually ask for that, and can also ask for a parent NOT to be present if you prefer that. All in all, your OB/GYN will likely make efforts to be sure that your first exam is as comfortable for you as possible. Remember that to an OB/GYN, there's nothing weird or shameful about looking at genitals or giving a genital exam; they're going to consider a patient's genitals in exactly the same objective, nonsexual way that a podiatrist would consider a patient's foot.
And if you're worried about pain or discomfort, most women -- myself included -- will generally agree that a trip to the dentist is usually more uncomfortable than a trip to the gynecologist. :)


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Diagnosing performance issues with SharePoint Online
This article shows you how you can diagnose common issues with your SharePoint Online site using Internet Explorer developer tools.
There are four different ways that you can identify that a page on a SharePoint Online site has a performance problem with the customizations.
The Site and Page performance diagnostic
The F12 tool bar network monitor
Comparison to a non-customized baseline
SharePoint Online response header metrics
This topic describes how to use each of these methods to diagnose performance issues. Once you've figured out the cause of the problem, you can work toward a solution using the articles about improving SharePoint performance that you can find on https://aka.ms/tune.
Use the Site and Page performance diagnostic from the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
If you're an administrator, and you're having trouble with performance in SharePoint, select Run Tests below, which will populate the Site and Page Performance diagnostic in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. These tests will check your configuration and quickly recommend next steps to help improve SharePoint performance for your tenant.
This feature is not available for Microsoft 365 Government, Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet, or Microsoft 365 Germany.
Using the F12 tool bar to diagnose performance in SharePoint Online
In this article, we use Internet Explorer 11. Versions of the F12 developer tools on other browsers have similar features though they may look slightly different. For information on the F12 developer tools, see:
To bring up the developer tools press F12 and then click the Wi-Fi icon:
On the Network tab, press the green play button to load a page. The tool returns all of the files that the browser requests in order to get the page you asked for. The following screenshot shows one such list.
You can also see the download times of the files on the right side as shown in this screenshot.
This gives you a visual representation of how long the file took to load. The green line represents when the page is ready to be rendered by the browser. This can give you a quick view of the different files that might be causing slow page loads on your site.
Setting up a non-customized baseline for SharePoint Online
The best way to determine your site's performance weak points is to set up a completely out-of-the-box site collection in SharePoint Online. This way you can compare all the various aspects of your site with what you would get with no customization on the page. The OneDrive for Business home page is a good example of a separate site collection that is unlikely to have any customizations.
Viewing SharePoint response header information
In SharePoint Online, you can access the information that is sent back to the browser in the response header for each file. The most useful value for diagnosing performance issues is SPRequestDuration, which displays the amount of time that the request took on the server to be processed. This can help determine if the request is heavy and resource intensive. This is the best insight you have into how much work the server is doing to serve the page.
To view SharePoint response header information
Ensure that you have the F12 tools installed. For more information on downloading and installing these tools, see What's new in F12 tools.
In the F12 tools, on the Network tab, press the green play button to load a page.
Click one of the .aspx files returned by the tool and then click DETAILS.
Click Response headers.
What's causing performance issues in SharePoint Online?
The article Navigation options for SharePoint Online shows an example of using the SPRequestDuration value to determine that the complicated structural navigation was causing the page to take a long time to process on the server. By taking a value for a baseline site (without customization), it's possible to determine if any given file is taking a long time to load. The example used in Navigation options for SharePoint Online is the main .aspx file. That file contains most of the ASP.NET code that runs for your page load. Depending on the site template you use, this could be start.aspx, home.aspx, default.aspx, or another name if you customize the home page. If this number is considerably higher than your baseline site, then it's a good indication that there's something complex going on in your page that is causing performance issues.
Once you've identified that an issue specific to your site, the recommended way to figure out what is causing poor performance is to eliminate all of the possible causes, like page customizations, and then add them back to the site one by one. Once you have removed enough customizations that the page is performing well, you can then add back specific customizations one by one.
For example, if you have a complex navigation try changing the navigation to not show sub-sites then check the developer tools to see if this makes a difference. Or if you have a large amount of content roll-ups try removing them from your page and see if this improves things. If you eliminate all of the possible causes and add them back in one at a time, you can easily identify which features are the biggest problem and then work towards a solution.
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Beyond Centrino 2: what's next for laptop tech?
Intel is already cooking up the next generation
Shhhh! You may already own a shiny new Centrino 2 laptop, but Intel is already cooking up the successor, code-named Calpella (named after a small town in California). Details are sketchy, but we poked and prodded Intel until they coughed up a few tidbits. And, just his week, tech gossip rag The Inquirer drudged up some rumours and speculation that we, of course, need to perpetuate.
For starters, Intel passed on some information from a keynote that the vice president and general manager of its mobility group, Dadi Perlmutter, mentioned at Shanghai IDF (Intel Developer Forum) in April.
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"Calpella is going to feature a new microprocessor, the next generation coming out from the Intel Tick-Tock Factory, coming to mobile next year, together with the stunning new computing visual experience, better manageability, better security for consumer and the business, and last but not least, evolutionary power management," said Perlmutter during his keynote.
"We are going to feature new power management capabilities on Calpella that are really playing between the power of a CPU and graphics and visual computing, so you can get the best performance still not burning your laps."
That's all well and good, but also a little generic. So we asked one of the foremost chipset analysts around today to explain what it means, and to frame it in more practical terms.
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"Nehalem (recently unmasked for the desktop as Core i7)will significantly change the architecture of Intel's processor because all versions will integrate the main memory controller onto the same die with the CPU, and most mobile versions will integrate a graphics processor on the same die with the CPU, too," says Shane Rau, a research director for computing, networking, and storage semiconductors at IDC.
"It's using the same code-name for processors in the x86 server and desktop PC segments. The effect will be to gut the major functions of part of the core logic chipset called the Northbridge. As a result, core logic chipset vendors who rely on the chipset market for their business will be severely undercut."
In other words, watch out Nvidia and AMD/ATI. Intel intends to solve the power and performance bottlenecks of modern day processors by combining the CPU and GPU. And there's another way to interpret the change. Intel wants to move farther away from a "component" mentality to laptop computing, the strategy that AMD has been using for years.
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Its Puma platform for notebooks, for example, is more of a group effort, says Rau, and even integrates a third-party wireless chip from Broadcom. Today, AMD has segmented its offerings for "thin and light" or "desktop replacement" but the Intel strategy is pretty much: a chipset inside any laptop, no matter which shape and size.
Meanwhile, The Inquirer report mentions this same "conjoining" of the CPU and GPU – and covers how Intel plans to integrate the Southbridge section of the chipset onto the Northbridge section, including the DDR3 memory controller.
However, they go a step further and explain that a new chipset, codenamed Ibex Peak-M, will integrate "other features" of the motherboard (we can only imagine what they would be), and that the next mobile chipset after Centrino 2, which maybepredictablynamed Centrino 3, will also provide both 802.11n Wi-Fi and Wi-Max on the same chipset. The new notebook codenames, Clarksfield and Auburndale, will integrate graphics onto the chipset, according to The Inquirer report.
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But let's take a step back. What we know for sure, based on Perlmutters' comments, is that Centrino 3 will push the envelope even further on battery management, graphics performance, and security.
Centrino 2 integrates 802.11n Wi-Fi (for over 100Mbps of throughput) and Wimax (for citywide wireless deployments that require fewer towers to cover a large area) on the same chipset, making it ready for prime time once those technologies become more ubiquitous (read: are not stalled out by company failures, low adoption rates, and certification snafus). We also know that Centrino 2 was delayed for about six weeks by a graphics glitch, which is – it should be noted – not a good sign.
Wikipedia, always the bastion of certifiable hard-core facts, also has some Capella details, but none of them include citations: that Calpella will use the Intel QuickPath Interconnect and not use the frontside bus; support for DisplayPort with DPCP; RAM support up to DDR-1600 SO-DIMM; and SSD support.
The Wikipedia entry even claims that Calpella will "premiere" in Q3 2009, a word that sounds like it was written by an Intel marketing spokesperson, likely the same individual who told us by email that Intel could not elaborate any further on Calpella details or confirm any release dates.
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If you're anything like me, you're constantly shuffling around town (or around the country) with bits. No, not those bits; you know the ones I'm talking about: pens, cables, more pens, headphones, USB sticks, pocket knives and pens. They get shoved into a small pocket in a bag, where they sit, unharmonious and disorganized, until I fumble around for them.
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Tweet 'buy' to purchase flights by Twitter
With Chirpify, TweetAFlight could help change Twitter into a transactional service. It might take some of the hassle out of flying too.
If you're a frequent flyer, there's nothing that sucks the fun out of travel like combing the Web for deals (apart from airports and economy class, that is). But what if buying a ticket were as simple as tweeting?
TweetAFlight promises to get you deals in ads you see on Twitter if you just tweet "buy" in response.
Steven Frischling of The Travel Strategist hopes to launch TweetAFlight in the next few months. It's aimed at giving you the best chance of taking advantage of Twitter deals on airfares -- before you can become distracted while you follow the ad link to a Web page.
TweetAFlight uses PayPal and Chirpify to grab cheap tickets, and users will need accounts with both services. Airlines will have to sign up with TweetAFlight too.
Startup Chirpify said this week that it has raised $1.3 million to develop a platform for buying, selling, and making donations on Twitter. It promises to "monetize your followers."
TweetAFlight says it will be an instant, one-step way to get cheap deals and last-minute bargains, many of which are missed because travelers don't buy them quickly enough.
It's hard to believe people used to have to physically travel to meet other another human being, a travel agent, to purchase flight tickets.
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If you think vaccines are just for kids, think again! Adults and teenagers need to get their shots, too. Ask your mom to hand over your vaccination records from childhood and check them out… are you up-to-date?
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Parameters are CHICKEN's form of dynamic variables, except that they are procedures rather than actual variables. A parameter is a procedure of zero or one arguments. To retrieve the value of a parameter call the parameter-procedure with zero arguments. To change the setting of the parameter, call the parameter-procedure with the new value as argument:
(define foo (make-parameter 123)) (foo) ==> 123 (foo 99) (foo) ==> 99
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CHICKEN implements SRFI-39.
[procedure] (make-parameter VALUE [GUARD])Returns a procedure that accepts zero or one argument. Invoking the procedure with zero arguments returns VALUE. Invoking the procedure with one argument changes its value to the value of that argument and returns the new value (subsequent invocations with zero parameters return the new value). GUARD should be a procedure of a single argument. Any new values of the parameter (even the initial value) are passed to this procedure. The guard procedure should check the value and/or convert it to an appropriate form.
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[parameter] (case-sensitive)If true, then read reads symbols and identifiers in case-sensitive mode and uppercase characters in symbols are printed escaped. Defaults to #t.
[parameter] (dynamic-load-libraries)A list of strings containing shared libraries that should be checked for explicitly loaded library units (this facility is not available on all platforms). See load-library.
[parameter] (command-line-arguments)Contains the list of arguments passed to this program, with the name of the program and any runtime options (all options starting with -:) removed.
[parameter] (current-read-table)A read-table object that holds read-procedures for special non-standard read-syntax (see set-read-syntax! for more information).
[parameter] (exit-handler)A procedure of a single optional argument. When exit is called, then this procedure will be invoked with the exit-code as argument. The default behavior is to terminate the program.
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[parameter] (keyword-style)Enables alternative keyword syntax, where STYLE may be either #:prefix (as in Common Lisp), which recognizes symbols beginning with a colon as keywords, or #:suffix (as in DSSSL), which recognizes symbols ending with a colon as keywords. Any other value disables the alternative syntaxes. In the interpreter the default is #:suffix.
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[parameter] (program-name)The name of the currently executing program. This is equivalent to (car (argv)) for compiled programs or the filename following the -script option in interpreted scripts.
[parameter] (repl-prompt)A procedure that should evaluate to a string that will be printed before reading interactive input from the user in a read-eval-print loop. Defaults to (lambda () "#;N> ").
[parameter] (reset-handler)A procedure of zero arguments that is called via reset. The default behavior in compiled code is to invoke the value of (exit-handler). The default behavior in the interpreter is to abort the current computation and to restart the read-eval-print loop.
[parameter] (recursive-hash-max-depth)The maximum structure depth to follow when computing a hash value. The default is 4.
[parameter] (recursive-hash-max-length)The maximum vector length to follow when computing a hash value. The default is 4.
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FAAC Incorporated is hosting an industry wide certification course for instructors of driver training simulation, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the field.
This 8-hour course will provide hands-on training and teach instructors new to simulation training proper techniques and best practices/teaching methodologies used with driving training simulation (DTS).
The certification course is designed for any instructor who uses a simulator to teach safe and defensive driving skills in the public safety, emergency response, and transit industries. The course will contain lessons on:
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• Student development
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• Acclimation techniques
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"By offering a certification for this course we are creating a standard of simulator knowledge and experience for instructors that we feel is necessary to get the most from a simulator training system," said Chuck Deakins, course instructor and FAAC Public Safety Specialist. "This course gets everyone on the same page as far as preparing students for training, effective training techniques, and reviewing the student's efforts.
The course, scheduled for Oct. 11 in Long Beach, CA, kicks off FAAC's 6th Annual User Conference (Oct. 12-14 aboard the Queen Mary). The conference consists of three days of best practice presentations, hands-on workshops, question-and-answer sessions, cross-training on different types of DTS products, and opportunities to share with and learn from other instructors from various industries.
FAAC has opened the certification course to all DTS instructors in the spirit of creating a baseline of knowledge and experience across the industry, said David Bouwkamp, Executive Director for Commercial Vehicle Business Development.
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Five years. It's been five lovely years. 60 monthly gallerys. Thousands of comments. Hundreds of layouts. And 1825 posts. And through it all you have been here with us. For that we thank you. And adore you!
As we do each new year, this month's gallery is a look back at the year we have left behind. Please join us in welcoming our new gallery, Inspired by Year 5.
City Kid | Aliza Deutsch
12 x 12 | materials cardstock (Bazzill Basics) + patterned paper (Studio Calico, Cocoa Daisy) + brads (October Afternoon) + letters (Jillibean Soup) + wood veneer (Cocoa Daisy) + stickers (Echo Park, My Mind's Eye) + stamp (Cocoa Daisy) + fonts (Burst My Bubble)
A Note from Aliza
This layout was inspired by two parts of Marnie's recent color week. First, there was one layout with two simple strips of patterned paper, and loads of glorious white space. I kept that in mind when making this super simple layout. Also in that week, Marnie wrote about the color combination of blue and green: "Denim blue and green. Stormy sky and trees. Nature made it perfect. I just borrowed it." I liked the words so much that I borrowed it too.
June Fun Fact
Summer. Yay. That's all I can say.
Happy Smile | Marnie Flores
12 x 12 | materials patterned papers (Glitz) + elements (Glitz) + fonts (2Peas Graham Cracker)
A Note from Marnie
This layout came from Jina Jean from our September gallery. I love everything Jina does: her colors are amazing, she is a layering master, and she is really good with the little add on details. I am so glad she is part of our team!
June Fun Fact
All of our activities/sports are year round, so summer really just means no school. But I'll take it!
Just Add Water | Francine Clouden
12 x 12 | materials cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper) + stickers (Scenic Route, My Mind's Eye) + canvas diecuts (BasicGrey) + diecut (Glitz Design) + spray ink (Kesi'art) + sequins (craft supply) + sewing machine
A Note from Francine
I was inspired by two layouts from the September 2013 gallery, Hug by Jina Jean and Sweetness by Monika Glod. I loved the stitching details and diecuts from Jina's layout, and the blown out black & white photo from Monika's. I used my sewing machine to make stitched "waves" on my background, and spray inks to make a beachy background.
June Fun Fact
One day at the beach is never enough for me. Our next vacation at the beach has to be at least a week long!
Playful | Sue Althouse
12 x 12 | materials cardstock (American Crafts) + patterned paper (Echo Park, Jenni Bowlin) + buttons (Queen & Co.) + butterfly punch (Martha Stewart) + title (Silhouette) + floss (We R Memory Keepers) + 12x12 die cut (Jillibean Soup) + foil gold butterfly (Jenni Bowlin) + mini pearls (Doodlebug) + typewriter (Remington)
A Note from Sue
This layout takes inspiration from Amy Coose's Number of Photos Week from this past April. My layout uses four photos that are different sizes: a 4x6 focal point photo and three supporting photos that are 3x3, 3.25x3.25 and 3x3. It's a different way for me to think about working with an even number of pictures.
June Fun Fact
I love stuffed animals and especially puppets. They make me feel like a kid again!
You Make My Heart Smile | Lisa Borbély
8.5 x 11 | materials tags (Cocoa Daisy, Fancy Pants Designs) + flair (Panda Eight) + stamp (Cocoa Daisy) + stickers (My Minds Eye) + heart (Simple Stories) + wood veneer (Studio Calico)
A Note from Lisa
This layout is made with the March sketch. I have loved working with sketches this year and I have made several layouts with our sketches. I was drawn to this one because it is out of my comfort zone. I usually have white space around the photos + papers etc. But the sketch had interesting elements.
June Fun Fact
To make more sense of the journaling you should know my fiancé has MS!
The Last Time | Amy Sorensen
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (American Crafts, Crate Paper, Echo Park, Pebbles) + alpha stickers (BasicGrey) + date stamp (Cocoa Daisy) + fonts (Bario Regular, Arsenale White)
A Note from Amy
One of my favorite things this year at wcs was Marnie's Scrapolympics week.
It was my favorite for a couple of reasons:
1. The cleverness of the events just made me happy!
2. I love seeing how scrapbookers take inspiration from each other.
3. My assignment was so helpful! I did the Pairs Skating event, and I studied Jenny Larsen's skill with using one big photo on layouts. It's an approach I had long admired but not ever really done successfully. Pushing myself to examine how Jenny implements color, pattern, and a big photo helped me gain strength with that approach. Big photos are my current big obsession!
June Fun Fact
I'm running my fourth Ragnar Relay race this month. I'm hoping not to fall during the night run like I did last year!
Say Cheese | Amy Coose
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Heidi Swapp, My Mind's Eye) + labels (Chic Tags) + stickers (My Mind's Eye) + pen (American Crafts) + cutting machine (Silhouette Cameo)
A Note from Amy
This layout is about meeting Richard Rawlings at a Dallas Mavericks basketball game. It was seriously a dream come true for my hubby, who is a huge fan of his show, "Fast and Loud."
June Fun Fact
I am looking forward to a fun summer with my big kids around more and lots of time at the pool. Remind me that I said that when I'm tired of being a maid and chauffeur by the second week they're home.
The Family Pi | Jennifer Larson
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Studio Calico, American Crafts) + stickers (Studio Calico, October Afternoon) + brads (American Crafts) + thickers (Studio Calico) + flair (October Afternoon) + die cut (October Afternoon) + rubons (Studio Calico) + wood veneer (Lily Bee) + chipboard letters (BasicGrey) + paint (Jenni Bowlin) + ink (Jenni Bowlin) + pen (Sharpie) + punch (EK Success) + epoxy stickers (Studio Calico)
A Note from Jenny
I was inspired by Cristina C. Scrap's May layout using a pie chart. I drew a circle and gave it to each family member and asked them to draw a pie chart for what was important to them. I then added it to the page, paired with a photo of each of us. Some notable moments: my older boy didn't have family at first, but later removed "biking" to replace it with "family"; my husband noted that neither of us put work on our wheel (I truly love my job!); and my younger boy noted that we hadn't put God on our charts, but God was the crust.
June Fun Fact
I am a gardening fiend and cannot wait for summer!
Sweet Girl | Jina Jean
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (Lawn Fawn) + stickers (American Crafts, Heidi Swapp) + diecuts (Elle's Studio, American Crafts) + label (Chic tags)
A Note from Jina
This layout was inspired by Stephanie Bryan's "Moments" layout in the January 2014 gallery. I tried to make pastel ruffles using tissue paper and watercolors for this layout.
June Fun Fact
Oh! My birthday is just coming up.
Finals | Laura O'Donnell
12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Light Bulb Moment by JustJaimee and Stolen Moments) + font (Remington Noiseless)
A Note from Laura
I was inspired by Francine's week of blogging about Instagram to scrap a recent photo from my daughter's Instagram feed along with the text she added to her photo for the journaling.
June Fun Fact
I'm changing up my Project Life to the 6" x 8" Handbook size for the summer. I already started with Memorial Day Weekend, and I love the smaller size!
Lunch This Week | Carey Bridges
12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Celeste Knight's Honeysuckle) + journal cards (Celeste Knight's Honeysuckle Journal Cards) + digital elements (Pixels & Company's Bermuda Triangle Collab, Gennifer Bursett's Miss Molly Elements) + washi tape (Scotty Girl Design's This Year 2014 Summer Washi Tape) + word strips (Scotty Girl Design's In the Kitchen Word Art) + font (1942 Report)
A Note from Carey
This layout was inspired by Christine Newman's Jumpstart Week during May 2014 and Christine's photo-inspired layout Sunset Stroll. I utilized the same polaroid format for my photos, and like Christine, I also pulled colors from my photos to select papers and embellishments. The grid format also was very appealing to me, so I followed her design and embellishment placement closely as well.
June Fun Fact
I can't eat breakfast sausage or sausage biscuits without dipping them in pancake syrup. The sweetness is so yummy!
Happy Anniversary | Cristina C. Scrap
12 x 12 | materials paper, flair, sequins, stamps, mist (Studio Calico) + ink (Versamark) + embossing powder (American Crafts) + modeling paste + sewing machine + cut file (Christine Newman - listgirl)
A Note from Cristina
I love the cut file designed by Christine Newman last July. I used it as a stencil with modeling paste. I love the texture it adds to my page!
June Fun Fact
I'm looking forward to a trip home to see our families at the end of the month!
Hello Lovely | Amy Kingsford
8.5 x 11 | materials cardstock (Digital Design Essentials) + patterned paper (Digital Design Essentials) + buttons (Digital Design Essentials) + brads (Digital Design Essentials) + labels (Digital Design Essentials) + stickers (Digital Design Essentials) + wood veneer (Digital Design Essentials) + washi tape (Amy Kingsford, Digital Design Essentials) + fonts (Century Gothic)
A Note from Amy
I made this layout using the write. click. scrapbook. sketch from November 2013. This sketch was based off of a beautiful page made by the lovely Diane Payne and tackles two design features that are a little out of my comfort zone--a grid design and the use of circles. I'm not sure why, but for the longest time I've struggled with using grids and circles in my own pages, but I love the clean, yet energetic look they bring to this page. The grid design allowed me to use plenty of bold colors and patterns on my page, while the use of multiple circles help to soften the edges a bit.
June Fun Fact
June is a busy month here in our house, filled with adventures in remodeling, potty training, swimming lessons and travels. This doesn't leave a whole lot of time for scrapbooking but it will provide plenty of fodder for future pages I'm sure!
Keep Calm | Celeste Smith
12 x 12 | materials digital kit (Shine On by Lauren Grier & Erica Zane)
A Note from Celeste
I was so inspired by Sue Althouse's week on go to designs. Nothing like having a few in your back pocket to get you out of a rut! I used the rectangle on a square idea for this layout. It's just fabulous having a few different places to start!
June Fun Fact
I have six thirteen year old boys coming to my house for a sleepover the first weekend of June. I'm hoping that their love of gaming keeps the ruckus to a bare minimum. A girl can dream can't she?
Sweet & Spicy | Kate Christensen
8.5 x 11 | materials digital kits (Adiamo by Scotty Girl Design; Boardwalk: Wood Grain by Laura Passage of Wishing Well Designs; Every Little Bit: Neutral Paper Pack by Deena Rutter) + frame (Summerific Frames by Creashens) + alpha (Endless Summer by Sugarplum Paperie) + mist (Mess it Up V.3 by Dawn by Design) + fonts (Pea Lex Valentine, CK Mama O, Century Gothic)
A Note from Kate
I was inspired by Jina's layout from the January 2014 gallery. I loved the huge ampersand and the pretty sequins all scattered about the page.
Five | Valerie O'Neall
12 x 12 | materials cardstock (American Crafts) + decorative tape (My Mind's Eye) + chipboard frames (Crate Paper) + chipboard numbers (Sassafras) + enamel shapes (My Mind's Eye) + phrase stamps (American Crafts, Crate Paper, Studio Calico)
A Note from Valerie
This layout was inspired by one of Christine Newman's from her Jumpstart week. I liked the variety of papers she used, but instead of patterned paper, I decided to use decorative tape.
June Fun Fact
What a great feeling to be done with preschool drop-off and pick-up every day!
Sprinkler Dog | Marnie Flores
12 x 12 | materials patterned paper (One Little Bird, Troublemaker) + twine (Splendid Finns) + journaling blocks (Creativity by Crystal) + fonts (Bondoluo, Century Gothic)
A Note from Marnie
This layout is based upon two. The idea of a rectangle inside a square came from Sue Althouse's design week where I learned that 8.5x11 layouts fit perfectly inside 12x12 layouts. For the rectangular layout I looked to Lisa's layout from our June 2013 gallery.
June Fun Fact
School finished yesterday! Woohoo!
Thank you for a stopping by to see our lovely gallery. Please leave us a comment telling us your favorite thing about the last 5 years! We would love to hear it!


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It is well-known that the compact two-dimensional manifolds are completely classified (by their orientability and their Euler characteristic).
I'm also under the impression that there is also a classification for compact three-dimensional manifolds coming from the proof of the Geometrization Conjecture and related work.
Unfortunately for $n\ge4$ no similar classification is possible because it can be shown that it is at least as hard as the word problem for groups. Thus for higher-dimensional manifolds we instead focus on classifying all the simply-connected compact manifolds.
My question
Why in these "classification problems" are we only considering compact manifolds? Is there an easy reason why we restrict ourselves to the classification of compact manifolds? Does a classification of general (not necessarily compact) manifolds follow easily from a classification of compact manifolds?


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Insight - Case Study
Insight: Successful Implementation of a smarter working pilot project
With new office restructuring, Insight sought a renewed source of inspiration, and commissioned a small project team to draw up the plans to put them into practice. This new office was to serve as a pilot project for other branches across Europe as it previously lacked consistency in its attempts to apply the principles of New Work across various offices.
In combination with the Smarter Working principles, Insight now provides its employees with innovative working environments. This promotes motivated and efficient work with less stress, making call management effortless with the capability to switch seamlessly between mobile, PC or fixed-line networks.


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A System for Praying in 2012
The New Year is a great time to reconfigure the way we do things. And it can be a bit overwhelming.
Diet, exercise, memorization habits, reading lists, time management — all this is good. But perhaps the best place to start — and the foundation to all the rest — is the primary means of grace in the Christian life, the Word and prayer.
For the Word, Justin Taylor has put together a great list of Bible reading plans to consider. As for prayer, you might also find that some systematic approaches are helpful.
A Few Systems to Consider
Paul Miller warns us that systems can become rote, making us mechanical and mindless in our praying. They can desensitize our communing with God as a person. But he continues, "Remember, life is both holding hands and scrubbing floors. It is both being and doing. Prayer journals or prayer cards are on the 'scrubbing floors' side of life. Praying like a child is on the 'holding hands' side of life. We need both."
Prayer Cards
Adapted from Paul Miller, A Praying Life, (NavPress, 2009), 225-233.
Using a stack of 3x5 index cards, Miller creates cards for people in varous relationships: family members, people in suffering, non-Christians, and friends.
- The card functions like a prayer snapshot of a person's life, so I use short phrases to describe what I want.
- When praying, I usually don't linger over a card for more than a few seconds. I just pick out one or two key area and pray for them.
- I put the Word to work by writing a Scripture verse on the card that expresses my desire for that particular person or situation.
- The card doesn't change much. Maybe once a year I will add another line. These are just the ongoing areas in a person's life that I am praying for.
- I usually don't write down answers. They are obvious to me since I see the card almost every day.
- I will sometimes date a prayer request by putting the month/year as in 08/07.
He concludes, "Write out your prayer requests; don't mindlessly drift through life on the America narcotic of busyness. If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of [Jesus'] garment and don't let him go until he blesses you. He will reshape the day" (233).
Lists and Memorium
Adapted from D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, (Baker Books, 1992), 27-29.
Apart from any printed guides I may use, I keep a manila folder in my study, where I pray, and usually I take it with me when I am traveling. The first sheet in that folder is a list of people for whom I ought to pray regularly: they are bound up with me, with who I am. My wife heads the list, followed by my children and a number of relatives, followed in turn by a number of close friends in various parts of the world. . . .
The second sheet in my folder lists short-range and intermediate-range concerns that will not remain there indefinitely. They include forthcoming responsibilities in ministry and various crises or opportunities that I have heard about, often among Christians I scarcely know. Either they are the sort of thing that will soon pass into history (like the project of writing this book!), or they concern people or situations too remote for me to remember indefinitely. In other words, the first sheet focuses on people for whom I pray constantly; the second includes people and situations for whom I may pray for a short or an extended period of time, but probably not indefinitely. . . .
The next item in my manila folder is the list of my advisees — the students for whom I am particularly responsible. This list includes some notes on their background, academic program, families, personal concerns and the like, and of course this list changes from year to year.
The rest of the folder is filled with letters — prayer letters, personal letters, occasionally independent notes with someone's name at the top. These are filed in alphabetical order. When a new letter comes in, I highlight any matters in it that ought to be the subject of prayer, and then file it in the appropriate place in the folder. The letter it replaces is pulled out at the same time, with the result that the prayer folder is always up to date. I try to set aside time to intercede with God on behalf of the people and situations represented by these letters, taking the one on the top, then the next one, and the next one, and so forth, putting the top ones, as I finish with them, on the bottom of the pile. Thus although the list is alphabetized, on any day a different letter of the alphabet may confront me.
Update: Formerly I listed Lectio Divina as a third system for prayer. I've since removed it for the confusion it has caused. We do not endorse contemplative spirituality. The main point I'd like to recommend is using the text of Scripture as an organizer for our prayers — prayers that are exegetically faithful and gospel rich. I'm sorry for introducing the category.


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The burden of transportation system repairs may soon fall solely on state and local governments, the Washington Post reported.
State and local governments will likely foot the bill for rebuilding projects due to a lack of a long-term funding plan to repair the United States transportation system, according to Standard & Poor's Rating Services. The money for these repairs will come from taxpayers.
According to the Washington Post, the reason infrastructure has been primarily ignored was pointed out when Standard & Poor's Rating Services reported on the United States' "$2.2 trillion backlog of infrastructure projects."
To accommodate for infrastructure spending, many states levy gas taxes, which may not accumulate funds needed. Some states have turned to highway usage fees, which charge per mile traveled, and others are getting on board too. Maryland and California charge for use of some freeways and expressways; other states are considering a total shift away from gas taxes to highway usage fees.
According to Aggregates Manager, Congress passed a $105 billion on June 29 to help funding for surface transportation. However, that bill is by no means permanent, and Congress will have to find another solution in September 2014.


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Our iOS application using iOS LS library has issue when try to authenticate against our LS server. After investigation, we found that the token, assigned to LS_user parameter, being sent to LS server is different from the one set by the app thru the iOS client API. Any "+" character in the token string is replaced by a space character which make the token become invalid. We have similar authentication logic working fine with other LS client libraries, like Silverlight and .net window.
Is it a bug in iOS client? How I can get around it?


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Why is Ancient Philosophy Still Relevant?
by Massimo Pigliucci
Why on earth am I devoting years of my life to studying (and practicing) Stoicism? Good question, I'm glad you asked. Seriously, it would seem that the whole idea of going back two millennia to seek advice on how to live one's life is simply preposterous.
Have I not heard of modern science? Wouldn't psychology be a better source of guidance, for instance? And even philosophy itself, surely it has moved beyond the ancient Greco-Romans by now, yes?
And yet, I'm clearly not the only one here. Setting aside that a sizable number of people these days seem to be interested in Stoicism in particular (the Stoicism Facebook page is over 12,000 strong and growing), there has been a resurgence of virtue ethics in general (mostly in the guise of Neo-Aristotelianism), and of course millions of people around the world still find valuable guidance in the sayings of Buddha or Confucius. Why?
It isn't that these people are ignoring science, cognitive or otherwise. I, for one, was initially trained as a biologist, and I fully appreciate what modern science can tell us about human life and flourishing. I am also a 21st century philosopher, so I am cognizant of Hume, Kant, Mill, and so many others, all the way to Peter Singer.
And yet, there is clearly something that the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Peripatetics (followers of Aristotle), the Buddhist, the Confucianists and so forth clearly got right. There is something they thought about and taught to their students that still resonates today, even though we obviously live in a very different environment, socially, technologically, and otherwise.
The answer, I think, is to be found in the relative stability of human nature. This is a concept on which the Hellenistic philosophers relied heavily, though they didn't use that specific term.
For Aristotle, humans were essentially rational (meaning capable of reason) social animals. The Stoics agreed, and in fact their theory of oikeiosis ("familiarization") was essentially an account of developmental moral psychology: young humans have a natural propensity toward self-regard and regard for those who are close to them (mostly, their kin). Over time, this natural morality gets extended further and further, to friends and others living in the same polis, and — ideally — to the whole of humanity. The process is made possible by the fact that reason builds on a natural instinct, nurturing it and developing it over time.
(Crucially, although other primates seem to share in our natural instinct for sociability, they are incapable of extending it by reason.)
But these days the concept of human nature is seen with suspicion by both biologists and philosophers — though for different reasons.
Biologists ever since Darwin have moved away from the simplistic notion that anything complex (like a human being) can possibly be characterized by a small set of essential properties. And rightly so. Homo sapiens is the result of a gradual process of biological evolution, a cluster in evolutionary space, distinct from other such clusters (other species of Homo, now extinct, as well as chimpanzees, bonobos and so forth) only by degrees, not by sharp boundaries.
Philosophers, by and large, have become even more skeptical of the whole idea, or at the least such has been my experience over the years. Some simply accept biologists' rejection of essentialism, concluding (erroneously, I think) that therefore one cannot properly speak of human nature. Others, more drawn to the so-called Continental approach, are suspicious of past (and, indeed, current) use of notions like that of human nature to buttress racism and misogyny. Certainly these are well-founded fears, unfortunately, but again they do not license a wholesale rejection of the concept.
I think the modern philosopher who got closest to a reasonable account of human nature was also the one that is famous for most drawing from the science of his time: David Hume.
I can do no better than to summarize a lovely paper by Michael Gill published a number of years ago in Hume Studies. Gill bases his analysis on what Hume writes in the aptly titled, given our topic, Treatise of Human Nature, and sets it against the background of a controversy concerning the origins of human sociability then raging among Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury.
Gill's main thesis is that Hume developed a "progressive" account of human nature distinct from that of the three philosophers just mentioned, who agreed that human beings are social, but disagreed on the origins of our sociability: for Mandeville it is self-interest; for Hutcheson and Shaftesbury it is natural benevolence.
Shaftesbury presented as evidence of our benevolent nature the fact that we derive so much pleasure from friendship and other social interactions, and even from the very fact of doing good deeds. Similarly, Hutcheson said that we have an innate sense of public good (we feel good when others are happy, cringe at others' misery) and moral good (approve of virtue and disapprove of vice).
Mandeville was of a very different opinion, according to which our basic nature is selfish (a la Hobbes) and we organized in groups only to protect ourselves, first from natural dangers, then increasingly from each other. Modern society's complex "commerce" and "standards of politeness" are made possible by our ability to communicate and write, but are still rooted in our original selfish nature.
What about Hume? On the one hand, he was no egoist (in the Hobbesian sense), as he thought humans are endowed with natural virtues. On the other hand, he squarely said that justice is not natural, but rather the result of (cultural) "artifice."
A major part of Hume's argument is that justice is not common among pre-civilized humans, and it requires training. It cannot, therefore, be natural. (Yes, I know, modern readers rightly cringe at this sort of statement, but bear with me a little longer, it will be worth it.)
To understand Hume's further discussion we need to keep in mind that for him a virtue consists of having a certain motive for action (this is very close to Lawrence Becker's take on Stoicism and virtue). Now the motive for justice cannot be regard for justice, on pain of circularity. It can't be self love either (although it did exist in pre-civilized humans, and is therefore natural, according to Hume), since this will often be in conflict with justice. Hume also rejected regard for public interest as a motive for justice, thus apparently (but only apparently!) landing squarely in Mandeville's camp.
Indeed, Hume went so far as to conclude that "In general, it may be affirm'd, that there is no such passion in human minds, as the love of mankind, merely as such, independent of personal qualities, or services, or of relation to ourself." (Again, something the Stoics would agree on.) Emotions about other human beings, maintained Hume, are always directed at particular individuals, not at humanity in general. The converse is true as well: we don't get a sense of justice by generalizing our feelings for particular individuals, because sometimes we ought to and do behave justly toward people we deeply dislike.
Hume agreed with Mandeville (and with Hobbes) that we have developed societies because we would otherwise have a hard time surviving on our own. So, societies originated out of the self interest of individuals. The fact that justice then also arises from selfish motives can be derived from the observation that we simply wouldn't need justice if we were naturally disposed to respect the interests of others.
Where Hume began to diverge from Mandeville is with the latter's contention that, essentially, we are all hypocrites when we talk about morality. For Hume, rather, people have genuine moral feelings of justice. Hume's middle way between Mandeville on one hand and Hutcheson and Shaftesbury on the other, is the idea that we initially want justice for selfish reasons, but eventually develop a mental association that leads us to approve of justice even when it runs counters to our selfish motives. (The major difference between Hume and Stoic oikeiosis here is that the Stoics emphasized the role of reason, not just habit, in the process.)
To recap the situation so far: Hume agreed with Mandeville that justice is an artificial virtue originating in self interest; but he also agreed with Hutcheson and Shaftesbury that people exhibit genuine non self interested feelings of justice. All three of his predecessors would have thought these two positions to be mutually incompatible.
One way to look at this is that the three in question adopted (different) static, "originalist," views of human nature. Hume, by contrast, upheld a dynamic, progressive view, where originally selfish motives can develop into genuinely altruistic ones.
The Humean engine for this change is his famous principle of association: we begin by disapproving of acts of injustice that do not affect us (because they tend to be harmful), and we end up conjoining disapproval and injustice in general. Which means we develop a broader disapproval of all unjust acts, including those that benefit us. This mechanism, says Hume, applies not just to justice, but to all morally relevant sentiments.
Gill makes a final interesting point by drawing a distinction between two senses in which one may ask about the "origins" of something: chronological and functional. For instance, we could ask what is the origin of the Constitutional powers of the American government and provide two very distinct, not mutually exclusive, answers: they came from a Constitutional convention held in Philadelphia in 1787; and they are rooted in consent of the people (at least in theory). The first answer is chronological, the second is functional.
Gill suggests that the three pre-Humean philosophers simply assumed that chronological and functional explanations coincide in the case of moral sentiments, while Hume's innovation consisted in decoupling them. Here is how Hume himself very clearly put it: "Thus self-interest is the original motive to the establishment of justice; but a sympathy with public interest is the source of the moral approbation which attends that virtue."
What are we to make of the Humean solution to the Mandeville-Hutcheson-Shaftesbury debate, from our post-Darwinian perspective? Roughly speaking, we could say that both Mandeville, on one hand, and Hutcheson and Shaftesbury, on the other, were early versions of what today we would call biological determinists — they only disagreed on the qualitative nature of that determinism (selfish for Mandeville, benign for the other two).
Hume's position, however, can be updated in a more nuanced and interesting way, from the vantage point of modern biology and social science. At the risk of stretching Hume's own intention, I am going to suggest that his acknowledgement of a "natural" status for our moral feelings is a due and reasonable concession to the "naturist" camp in the nature-nurture debate. There is no getting around it: human beings are a particular biological species, characterized by a historically inherited genetic environment that constrains the way we act, feel and think. What elevates this to the lofty status of "human nature" is that our closest evolutionary cousins (bonobos, chimpanzees, and other great apes) have a significantly different genetic and behavioral repertoire.
But Hume's principle of association can be profitably recast as an embryonic theory of cultural evolution (and personal development), according to which we are capable of generating novel (genuine) feelings out of a combination of experiences and our ability to reflect on those experiences.
If Hume is even approximately right, and I think he is, that goes some way toward explaining why ancient wisdom is still relevant today: because human nature changes slowly, since it is rooted in the particularities of the human gene pool, which impose constraints on just how different people can be once we abstract from the historical peculiarities of any given culture.
The reason Epictetus, Epicurus, Buddha, Confucius and a number of others still resonate with us in the 21st century is because they got something profoundly right about the nature of humanity in the place and time in which they lived. And since such nature — as non essentialistic and slowly evolving as it is — has apparently not changed drastically over the past several millennia, here we are, still studying Epictetus and the others, and still gaining from them the kind of insight that made Arrian take the detailed notes that eventually turned into the Discourses and the Enchiridion as we know them today.
Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He is an evolutionary biologist and a philosopher of science, whose writings can be found at platofootnote.org. He has written or edited ten books, most recently Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (University of Chicago Press). He grew up in Rome, reading Seneca and Cicero, but re-discovered Stoicism only recently. He sports two philosophy-related tattoos…


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Last year on Stitcher's Guild, someone mentioned this great skirt on Territory Ahead, called the Cascade skirt:
This skirt is similar to the Sewing Workshop Lotus skirt:
But the Territory Ahead skirt is also similar to a a slit style circle skirt that I drafted last year:
I decided to try to reproduce the Territory Ahead skirt, based on the photo on their website - I have not seen the skirt in person. It is basically an a-line skirt with a side drape and lined to the knee (based on one review that was posted). I played with the design in a small scale, using fabric scraps. Once I had the design figured out, I then realized it's pretty much the same as the slit circle skirt I drafted last year. Here is what the main pattern piece looks like (I neglected to add a grainline to the sketch, but the grainline runs perpendicular to the top of the skirt):
You cut two of these pattern pieces and sew the a-line side. You then sew the portion marked as "waist" (see the diagram), to the bottom of a yoke. My yoke is straight across at the bottom, but it doesn't have to be - you trim off any unevenness later when you mark the hem. I used a rectangular yoke with an elastic waistband, but if you prefer a fitted yoke with darts and a zipper, you can use that instead. You make the yoke as wide as you want, but I made mine about 4" from the bottom of the waistband to the skirt, because that placed the side drape on the hip where I liked it best. I also liked the selvedge on the fabric, so I sewed it to the outside of the yoke and let the selvedge edge form the side of the drape. But you could construct it more conventionally, if you don't want the selvedge edge showing.
Because the drape is not stitched together, it can fall open, revealing a lot of leg. So the skirt is lined to just below the knee. I used the same a-line shape that I used on the skirt (the non-draped side) and cut it out of a semi-sheer crinkled polyester from Fabrix. I left the bottom edge serged.
Inside out, showing the lining. The skirt is listing a bit to the side due to the weight of the drape, but it does not pull on the body because the fabric, a cotton rayon blend from Fabrix, is not that heavy.
Another peek at the lining.
When I drafted the skirt, I did not worry about the curve of the hemline. I just ignored it. After I sewed the skirt up last Sunday, I hung it for almost a week before hemming it this morning - I would recommend hanging it a bit because the drape is on the bias. When it came time to hem it, I pulled out DD2's punching bag, placed it upside down on a box, and put the skirt on it. The punching bag has a depressingly similar waistline to mine. I was then able to pin in a straight hem and to cut off the excess at both sides. Of course, a dressform would work even better. :)
My Impromptu Dress Form
Will I make this again? Yes, I really like this skirt. Because it is an a-line, it is easy to wear and move in - there is not too much fabric at the hem to get tangled around your ankles. It requires a drapey fabric, but not one that is too heavy or you might start to list to one side as you walk or it might pull on the skirt too much. The lining gives you the modesty you might require. All in all, it's a great design!!
Here you can see the overall shape.


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Last year I discovered British drone master Paul Bradley. This year it's the beautiful drones of David Tagg. I have two of his recordings now, "Expanding Electronic Diversity" & "Waist Deep Seas Of Milk". Two excellent albums.
So because I've been listening to more drones than usual I've decided to do a drone mix. Nothing extraordinary here, just one drone slowly slipping into the next.
Most of the music here is fairly new. Almost all of it released this year or last, except of course for the Aloof Proof, which almost counts as new because of the reissue last year. This was fairly easy to put together but it flows nicely. Should be excellent for sleeping.
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- 00:00 Paul Bradley - Irenic
- 05:45 Stars of the Lid - Virgina
- 09:00 Andrew Chalk - Suspended in Air
- 14:00 David Tagg - Waist Deep in Seas of Milk #6
- 20:30 Emeralds - arbol del tule
- 28:05 Belong - Vowel
- 35:00 Nelson Foltz & Tom Lynn - still life interlude
- 43:00? David Tagg - The 25th Door
- 49:30 Aloof Proof - The Last Leaf
- 59:30 Paul Bradley - Chroma #1
- 02:30 The Beautiful Schizophonic - cantiques la gloire du soleil


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Former L0pht member, Defcon Badge Designer, Triathelete, new father, and urban clothing designer Kingpin (aka, Joe Grand) can now add yet another title to his resume, TV Star! The premier of the Discovery Channel's new show Prototype This! debut's Wednesday October 15 at 8PM. Sort of a cross between Junkyard Wars and Myth Busters Kingpin acts the groups electronics wizard. For the first episode the team builds a mind controlled car. Be sure to check your local listings!
Hope someone throws this up on the Bay 'cause I don't get cable.


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Eric Church was unable to perform his scheduled concert in Buffalo, N.Y. on Friday night due to severe weather. The 'Springsteen' hitmaker was slated to appear at WYRK's Taste of Country 2012 concert, where Joe Nichols, Eli Young Band, Casey James and Dustin Lynch performed before him. Unfortunately, the weather became too severe for Church to take the stage come showtime.
In light of last summer's fatal stage collapse involving the Sugarland duo, country acts playing festival stages are likely more attentive than ever about playing one-night constructed concert events, such as tonight's. Following the first four acts, the show was called off due to high wind and rain, but Church was willing to issue a statement to unhappy fans who were sad to miss him this time around.
"I'm very bummed the show got canceled tonight. I've learned in doing this, that some things are out of your hands and this is one of those things," the singer told the radio station following the event. "I owe the city of Buffalo one, and I intend to make good on that. To everyone out there, thanks for coming and standing in the rain and wind, and we intend to bring it when the time comes."
He added, "Again, sorry it happened, and I hope to see you again in the future." Earlier in the day, Church expressed to Taste of Country that he was eager to take the stage that night. Sometimes, weather doesn't allow that, and we hope that everyone who attended had a fun time nonetheless.